The Industrial Twilight: January 2011

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Thy Catafalque - "Tűnő Idő Tárlat" [2004]

Artist: Thy Catafalque
Title: Tűnő Idő Tárlat
Label: Epidemie Records
Genre: Avantgarde/Industrial Metal
Country: Hungary
Release date: 2004

Track list:

Csillagkohó
Neath waters (Minden vízbe mártott test)
Bolygó, bolyongó
Kék ég karaván
Héja-nász az avaron
Zápor
Az õsanya szól ivadékaihoz
Varjak fekszenek

Kátai Tamás, a leader of Gire, Thy Catafalque and several other projects (all of which deserve an attention of any avantgarde music fans), himself said that he's not against distributing his music on the web, and this album was officially available for free download about 2 years ago, so I think it's completely OK to post it here. "Tűnő Idő Tárlat" is a true masterpiece: it's really avant-garde, and really metal! The closest analogue to it, in my opinion, is "666 International" by Dødheimsgard, but "Tűnő Idő Tárlat" is even better. Need I say more? Just watch this short video, and you'll have an idea of what you'll hear on this album:

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Monday, January 17, 2011

Roncsipar - "Betonsivatag Kalifornia (Concrete Waste California)" [2009]

Artist: Roncsipar
Title: Betonsivatag Kalifornia
Label: Chromechoes Prods.
Genre: Industrial Rock/Metal, "Monolithic Industrial"
Country: Hungary
Release date: 2009

Track list:

Betonsivatag Kalifornia
Karmazsin csók
Visszatérés a vákuum litániához
Hol van az istened?
Néma
Eranthisz-ízű nő
Visszatérés a vákuum litániához (41939/Them on Grail agyváltozata)
Hol van az istened? (Lin/Wet Lips táncváltozata)

One more free release by Roncsipar - now a LP titled "Betonsivatag Kalifornia". Honestly, I liked "Mini Assemblage" a lot more... but I probably just haven't listened to "Betonsivatag Kalifornia" much enough to really like it - it isn't the music you'd get into after the first listening. anyway, I'd recommend this album to any fan of industrial/stoner metal bands like Godflesh/Fall Of Because.

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The Inverted Mirror - "The Inverted Mirror" [2009]

Artist: The Inverted Mirror
Title: The Inverted Mirror
Genre: Industrial / Noise / Dark Ambient
Country: Russia
Release date: 2009

Track List:

Electric Rain
Birth of a Nothing
Water Station
Head
Breaking Through the Kármán Line
Deep Inside

In my opinion, it's one of the best releases on Russian industrial/noise scene in the recent 5 years. Not much is known about The Inverted Mirror, but I know they're from Ufa (Bashkortostan, Russia), and they have two demos ("The Inverted Mirror" 2009 & "Seashell" 2010) which are officially available for free download. I haven't listened to their second demo yet (it seems to be less "noisy", more like drone ambient), but I really like this one. 100% true "industrial" atmosphere!

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About this blog

I created this blog mostly because I wanted to practise my English skills, and to showcase the industrial, gothic, punk, metal, neofolk and progressive rock scene of Russia/ex-USSR and Eastern Europe (especially Hungary) in the meanwhile.

As you can see, this blog doesn't take itself seriously enough, but I hope I'm doing good enough with my reviews even if my proficiency in English is limited. Along with the aforementioned stuff from Eastern Europe, I occasionally post some classic and rare albums that aren't to be missed, and generally whatever I want. Other categories of note:

* finno-ugric rarities - various music (including pop) in minor Finno-Ugric languages which I'm interested in because of my heritage. The music from Hungary, Finland and Estonia can be found under the respective categories;

* lo-fi - various poorly recorded demos from before 2000 that are of historical importance. Most of these demos come from the USSR era, so you might want to check out the USSR category as well.

As of now, I try to post only music that has already been made free by the artists themselves, or the rare old releases that are out of print. But if you're an artist and would like me to remove the download links of your work, just contact me using the form below.

Sorry, I don't do reviews by request, I don't have the time. Moreover, I think the bands that feel the need to advertise themselves by sending their demos to as many blogs as possible are usually just plain boring. If you want to contact me for any other reason, use the contact form below.

It should be obvious enough that reviewing anything on here doesn't equals endorsement of artists' personal views. This especially concerns neofolk and martial industrial. It'd be fair enough to say that I have the same approach to the political and religious topics in these genres as Laibach do.

Many of the female musicians featured on my blog are amateur models, and in many cases their modelling work is no less interesting than their music. Right now I'm working on giving it a separate section of the blog (just in case if anyone wants my review to be only about their music and not their looks). The work is in progress, check back later if you're interested.

The title of my blog comes from a song by The Kovenant (album "SETI", 2003).